Table 1.
List of abbreviations used in the article
| WMO | World Meteorological Organization |
| IMD | Indian Meteorological Department |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NHP | North Pacific High |
| WNP | Western North Pacific |
| ENSO | El Niño-Southern Oscillation |
| AO | Arctic Oscillation |
| PDO | Pacific Decadal Oscillation |
| NWP1 | North West Pacific |
| IGP | Indo-Gangetic Plain |
| PJ | Pacific-Japan teleconnections |
| MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| UHI | Urban Heat Island |
| UDI | Urban Dry Island |
| LULC | Land Use Land Cover |
| AH | Anthropogenic Heat |
| WRF | Weather Research and Forecasting |
| CCN | Cloud Condensation Nuclei |
| MAMD | Maximum Attainable Mixed Depth |
| LWC | Liquid Water Content |
| ABL | Atmospheric Boundary Layer |
| ANFIS | Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System |
| ANN | Artificial Neural Network |
| ANN | Artificial Neural Network |
| ANOVA | Analysis of Variance |
| AOD | Aerosol Optical Depth |
| APPCAP | Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very-High-Resolution Radiometer |
| AWS | Automated Weather Stations |
| BTD | Brightness Temperature Difference |
| CALIOPSO | Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation |
| CAQM | Commission for Air Quality Management |
| CAT | Clear Air Turbulence |
| CNN | Convolution Neural Network |
| COBEL-ISBA | Couche Brouillard Eau Liquide–Interactions between Soil, Biosphere, and Atmosphere |
| COBEL–Noah | Couche Brouillard Eau Liquide–Interactions between Soil, Biosphere, and Atmosphere—National Centers for Environmental Prediction—Oregon State University—U.S. Air Force–National Weather Service Office of Hydrologic Development |
| CPC | Civil Procedure Code |
| CPCB | Central Pollution Control Board |
| DP | Deep Learning |
| DRF | Distributed Random Forest |
| EnKF | Ensemble Kalman Filter |
| EPCA | Environmental Pollution (Prevention and Control) |
| FIS | Fuzzy Inference System |
| FRAM | Fog Remote Sensing and Modelling |
| GBM | Gradient Boosting Machine |
| GHG | Green House Gases |
| GLM | Generalized Linear Model |
| GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental satellite |
| GRAP | Graded Response Action Plan |
| HIRLAM-DMI | High-Resolution Limited-Area Model—Danish Meteorological Institute |
| HIRLAM-INM | High-Resolution Limited-Area Model—Instituto Nacional de Meteorología |
| IGI | Indira Gandhi International |
| IGP | Indo-Gangetic Plain |
| IHD | Ischemic Heart Disease |
| INSAT-3D | Indian National SATellite-3D |
| LANFEX | Local And Non-Local Fog Experiment |
| LPG | Liquified Petroleum Gas |
| LST | Land Surface Temperature |
| LSTM | Long Short Term Memory |
| MEP | Ministry of Environmental Protection |
| Méso-NH | Méso-Nonhydrostatic Mesoscale Model |
| MIR | Mid Infrared |
| ML | Microwave Links |
| MLP | Multilayer Perceptron |
| MMHg | Monomethyl Mercury |
| MoEFCC | Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Climate Change |
| MRD | Multirule Based Diagnostic |
| MRI | Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| MSW | Municipal Solid Waste |
| MTSAT | Multifunctional Transport Satellites |
| NAAQS | National Ambient Air Quality Standards |
| NAMP | National Air Quality Monitoring Programme |
| NCAP | National Clean Air Programme |
| NCR | National Capital Region |
| NDMA | N-nitrosodimethylamine |
| NDRC | National Development and Reform Commission |
| NEMMP | National Electricity Mobility Mission Plan |
| NTPC | National Thermal Power Corporation |
| NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction |
| OCEMS | Online Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems |
| PAH | Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons |
| PAN | Peroxyacyl nitrates |
| PNG | Piped Natural Gas |
| RNN | Recurrent Neural Network |
| RSL | Received Signal Level |
| RUC | Rapid Update Cycle |
| SAFAR | System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research |
| SEVIRI | Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager System |
| SOA | Secondary Organic Aerosol |
| SPCB | State Pollution Control Board |
| SST | Sea Surface Temperature |
| TIR | Thermal Infrared |
| UNEP | United Nations Environment Programme |
| USD | United States Dollars |
| VOCs | Volatile Organic Compounds |
| WRF-LES | Weather Research and Forecasting Large Eddy Simulation |
| WRF-PAFOG | Weather Research and Forecasting PArameterized Fog |
| XRT | Xtreme Randomized Tree |